Ran across an amazing photographer with some quite striking prints for sale on Etsy: Tom Fowlks. With an impressive client list including the likes of Wallpaper & iD magazines it's a small but impressive sampling.

A few of our favorites:




View the rest of what's in stock over at his Etsy here.
View more of his portfolios by visiting his main site here.

"THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF HERBERT MATTER is a revealing look at the fascinating life story of the highly influential mid-century modern design master. Known as a quintessential designer's designer, Swiss born Herbert Matter is largely credited with expanding the use of photography as a design tool and bringing the semantics of fine art into the realm of applied arts."

Writer/Director/Producer: Reto Caduff
Cast includes: Robert Frank & Massimo Vignelli

We're avid Baggu toters and wanted to share the newest addition to the colorful Baggu family: recycled cotton canvas duck bags!




"A book bag, a market carry-all, the perfect everyday tote. Carry in your hand, on your shoulder or across your chest. Brings home everything from a laptop to groceries." 100% recycled cotton canvas - $18.00



Visit Baggu to purchase & view the full line.

We've always had an intrigue for abandoned houses & buildings. Growing up in Cleveland probably sparked and fueled, seeing as Cleveland can be as bleak as Detroit based photographer Kevin Bauman has documented with his documentary style project: 100 Abandoned Houses. Read more about the project here & take a look at some of our favorites:





Limited edition prints are available for purchase here with $10 of each order proceeds going toward a charity or non-profit organization doing positive work in Detroit & other cities around the country.

Found via the lovely sfgirlbybay, thank you!

While bumming around in the middle of nowhere Nebraska for a year stint we'd been eyeing a particular abandoned farm house & barn way off in the distance from a usual highway stretch. In the few weeks before we hauled out to the West coast, we finally figured out how to get back to it and did some exploring and photo documenting of our own. Meet elusive abandoned farm:

Take a look at some amazing vintage inspiration for decor & treasure hunting via Amsterdam's fabulous: Neef Louis.




Browse through more wonders in the online catalog.

Via our wonderful Flickr favorite Kaylovesvintage.
Stop by her blog right here as well.

The wonderful Words and Eggs pointed us over to this amazing Flickr project by artist & designer Julian Montague: Daily Book Graphics. He also documents these graphic snippets and book cover art on his blog: Montague Projects.

A year long project thus far, to document graphic elements from his growing collection. It really is a most fabulous idea. A big bunch of vintage graphic eye candy mixed with one of our personal favorite thrift finds: books! Take a look at a few of our favorites from the set:









View the complete collection on Flickr.
While you're at it, make sure to stop by Words and Eggs for more vintage book goodness.

Truth: Craigslist is not our friend.

Sadly, we are what we shall call: Craigslist impaired. Every time we choose to peruse about, there is nothing but terrible photos of even more terrible nonsense or fabulous items with atrocious price tags. We rack our brains for delightful keywords and usually come out empty-handed and Google Reader clogged. (Yes, you can RSS a Craigslist search. Yes, it is more time consuming than helpful.)

So here we are, Craiglist forelorn, and what do we do? We read blogs and see photos and hear stories of all the lovely loveliness that everyone else and their entire extended families have located on none other than...yes, Craigslist. Curses!

P.S. Why is the Craigslist web icon a purple peace sign? Anyone?

Regardless, we have finally made amends with Craigslist. Our months of fruitless searches have ultimately left us with these:




Nikon, the resident pooch, is not so sure however and still declares Craigslist a fiend.



These letters look quite suspicious it seems and she spends most of her days eyeballing them worriedly since they've arrived. Perhaps she is just disheartened that her favorite planty friend (pictured with said letters: Rodger) is being held hostage and is unavailable for the usual mischievous leaf sniffing and dirt rummaging.

It should be noted, that while Craigslist finally revealed it's silver lining it was not without a fight. Read: Drive. A dark, rainy, 3 hour one at that.

Oh & yes, all the letters came with their bright red faces! Call dibs!
Arriving within the week to the shop.

Ciao!

Reminds us of our beauteous (and laboriously/lovingly handmade) Dirkon pinhole camera...
See the little guy in his 26 Olive Street Etsy prop debut:




To view & download the full font version (and give oneself good reason to refriend the beloved Elmer's Glue!) visit DaFont.com..


Now: off to snip some font up straight away!

A new found 26 Olive Street Twitter friend & vintage connoisseur Agent Gallery Chicago has us in awe with their most fabulous findings...




If those aren't enough to warrant some drool-inducing perusing about their site, just take a gander at some more eye candy:








With amazingly reasonable prices and a promising round up of items, be sure to keep checking back!

More information regarding Agent Gallery Chicago's showroom and current artists is available at their site.
Keep up to date with a blog RSS right here, and follow on Twitter here.

Hello all! After a hectic holiday weekend and a busy month with inventory and site maintenance, we're jumping back into the swing of things in the blog world.

For starters, today is the last day of our Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale!




Customer Appreciation Discounts:
10% off your total order for all first time buyers
20% off your total order for all repeat customers

***Convo for a pre-purchase updated listing -or- Receive your discount as a Paypal refund post checkout completion.***

We've just listed quite a bit of new items, so check out the shop!



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